Never leave your bag unattended
I forgot to tell everyone about the little drama in the airport on the day we arrived in Germany. A suitcase was left unattended!
An ownerless bag in the rail-airport terminal in Frankfurt.
You have no idea how lonely a little carry-on flight bag looks when it is cordoned off — all by itself — in the middle of a rail/airport terminal. Especially in a city as busy as Frankfurt. It took a while for the authorities to realise that no one ‘owned’ this bag. The first step was to shoo everyone away from the machine that spat out rail tickets. Then came the don’t-cross-this-line tape and plenty of officials looking worried and grim. We watched all this from just a few feet away — while waiting in line to ask about buying a Frankfurt Card which would give us two days of discount travel. After waiting almost 20 minutes, we learned we were at the wrong ticket office (‘Go upstairs please to the middle floor’). By the time we returned, the bag was gone and so was the police tape. We’ll never know if the owner appeared or if the bag was executed.
But we had a little surprise at the Frankfurt Card office. We hadn’t said a word, but as we approached the counter, the saleswoman said, ‘Oh, you must be Australians’. Poor John has a theory that Australian travellers are always easy to spot. He rests his case.
Where to next? 
Wonder how the person knew? What’s Poor John’s theory?
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I can only imagine how they pick out the American travelers (I’m hoping the Midwestern ones are at least the polite bunch)…
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I agree, I’d like to think that Midwesterners ARE the polite bunch.
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